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Harvard Public Health NOW

October 2, 2009

With the unfolding example of the world's public health response to the
novel H1N1 virus, HSPH Dean Julio Frenk asked an audience of public
health students, faculty and practitioners last month to consider an
expanded concept of what is meant by "global health security." Frenk spoke September 16 about "The H1N1 Pandemic and Global Health Security" to a capacity crowd in Kresge Auditorium.

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A distinguished panel of economists and political scientists hashed
out the various health care reform proposals currently before Congress
at a symposium Sept. 25 at HSPH, but there was little consensus among
them on the myriad ideas currently in play.

They all agreed, however, that something must be done to change the status quo.

A decade after its launch, the OASIS system used for the collection and
maintenance of student information at HSPH has been partially retired
and the first phase of a replacement system called ALICE has been
implemented. ALICE is named after Alice Hamilton (pictured) who was an HSPH
professor and Harvard's first female professor.